Quotes About Interpretation

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

The artist is justified by his art.

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because science either walks or runs but art has wings to fly!

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

Nothing else exists when art does.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.